The Society of Unpublished Authors

Episode 21: JoProPlanMoInstead of doing NaNoWriMo this year, Jo has devised her own November project, calling it JoProPlanMo (Jo’s Project Planning Month).This involves taking stock of all her creative projects to see what each one needs.

Episode 20: Analogue Ideas (AI)Introducing Analogue Ideas (Al). This week we continued our protest against using artificial intelligence (Al) in creative endeavours and reinvented the term Al.In Episode 20, we're reclaiming creativity, celebrating human ideas, and making a case for doing things the good ol' fashioned way... with our brains!!!!

Episode 19: We’ve lost the plot!In this episode we talk about plotting our novels, and some of the methods that are popular with writers.We discuss Save the Cat, Dan Harmon Story Circle, Michael Hauge’s Six Stage Plot Structure, and also the plotting like a Fireman Sam episode as written by Sara Grant in The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel.

In this episode we chat to Artelle Lenthall and Dannielle Viera, two of the founders of KidLitWest. Hear from them about what is unique about the Western Sydney writing scene for children, and about what happens in a KidLitWest meeting. They share all about the upcoming Write Out West festival and their relationship that has developed with Blacktown Libraries.

Episode 17: SEASON 2In this episode we talk all about how to finish a novel. We discuss the book Finish: giving yourselt the gift of done by Jon Acutt who says that perfectionism is the enemy of finishing something. We discuss Sarah's young adult novel she is writing, how many words she needs to write it, and the deadline she has given herself.